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Percolator

//ˈpɜːkəleɪtə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.

    "She heard the percolator bell ring."

  2. 2
    a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans wordnet
  3. 3
    A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

Etymology

From percolate + -or.

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